Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. What’s not to love about Flo, the Progressive insurance lady? For starters, she’s smart, sassy, filled with knowledge about ...

Flo from Progressive insurance has joined the big leagues of advertising icons. A Google search for “Flo from Progressive” yields an astonishing 14.4 million hits, including her own Wikipedia page.

I’ve never mentioned Flo, the Progressive Girl–the upbeat cashier with the retro hairdo, played by comic Stephanie Courtney in those insurance commercials–mainly because she’s always lurked deep in my ...